FROM THE VAULT
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Issues
BETWEEN THE LINES: MEDITATING ON THE NATURE OF COURAGE
In Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed (St. Martin’s Press, 2014), John F. …
PRESIDENT’S LETTER
[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="300"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption]
My book Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters has received a gratifying amount of interest since its …
FREEDOM RIDERS RECALL: LIFE-CHANGING EVENTS FROM THE SUMMER OF ’64
By Jim H. Smith
In the middle of June 1964, a year almost to the day after the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Mississippi, several hundred college students from all over the northern United States desce…
FALL WEEKENDS: LEGACIES CELEBRATE FAMILY WEEKEND; WESLEYAN’S “NO. 1 FAN” REMEMBERED AT HOMECOMING
[caption id="attachment_5365" align="alignleft" width="2250"] On Sept. 27, alumni and their children joined in for the a…
ARTHUR T. VANDERBILT II ’72: THE LEGACY OF HIS GRANDFATHER—AND OF PROFESSOR CLEMENT VOSE
By Jim H. Smith
In the spring of 1971, Arthur Vanderbilt II ’72 was a Wesleyan junior trying to decide on a topic for his senior thesis. Vanderbilt’s father was a lawyer and his grandfather had been one, also, and bot…
RANDY SIEGEL ’83 FUNDS SUMMER STUDENT SCIENCE RESEARCH
Randy Siegel ’83, a College of Letters alumnus, and his wife, Lisa, have a personal reason for giving to Wesleyan: their…
DR. FRANKLYN JUDSON ’64: AN ENDOWMENT GIFT FOR THE UNIVERSITY’S MISSION
[caption id="attachment_5385" align="alignleft" width="300"] Dr. Franklyn Judson ’64.[/caption]
Dr. Franklyn Judson ’…
WESLEYAN WELCOMES EIGHT NEW MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Saeyun D. Lee ’93
Lee is the senior assistant commissioner for academic affairs in the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, and supports the development and implementation of initiatives to continually enhan…
RADIO’S BREAKFAST CLUB: ANGELA YEE ’97 SERVES IT HOT
[caption id="attachment_5255" align="alignleft" width="1575"] Talk show host Angela Yee ’97 is on 105.1 FM radio’s Break…